Special to WorldTribune.com
East-Asia-Intel.com
South Korea is ready to execute a long-planned contingency measure, including options to send troops to exercise military control of the North, when and if a “sudden change” occurs there.
With the summary execution of North Korea’s number 2 man Jang
Song-Thaek, authorities in South Korea are further concerned about the
potentially catastrophic aftermath of a sudden regime collapse in
Pyongyang.
Urgent issues include: proliferation and loss of control of its nuclear and chemical arsenals, coup d’etat, mass famine, random executions of Koreans and violent revolution.
Known as OPLAN 5029, the contingency measure has been jointly worked out by the U.S. and South Korea and been in existence for over a decade. But until now, the U.S. has had the command authority over all joint U.S.-ROK military actions in a wartime scenario.
Several think tanks such as the U.S.-based Institute of Peace, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have reported that China also has a contingency plan for N. Korea’s sudden collapse.
Read more
East-Asia-Intel.com
South Korea is ready to execute a long-planned contingency measure, including options to send troops to exercise military control of the North, when and if a “sudden change” occurs there.
South and North Korean soliders at the DMZ.
Urgent issues include: proliferation and loss of control of its nuclear and chemical arsenals, coup d’etat, mass famine, random executions of Koreans and violent revolution.
Known as OPLAN 5029, the contingency measure has been jointly worked out by the U.S. and South Korea and been in existence for over a decade. But until now, the U.S. has had the command authority over all joint U.S.-ROK military actions in a wartime scenario.
Several think tanks such as the U.S.-based Institute of Peace, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have reported that China also has a contingency plan for N. Korea’s sudden collapse.
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment